Horses

I recently had a few minutes between meetings and I took the opportunity to sit with the horses. On wet grass no less! As I sat quietly with the herd, Kalle lay down next to me. My heart was almost in my mouth. When 650kg of prey animal chooses to lie down in your company, […]

What do horses and HR directors have in common? Quite a lot as it happens!Later this month Jude & Emma are off to the HR Directors summit for the second year running. Except, this year Kalle & Mr Blue are going with them!As well as holding some interactive sessions with the horses, Jude will be […]

How do you manage stress – both in you and your business?With 1 in 4 people expected to have a mental health problem in the next 12 months, work-related stress is a big issue.We have had one of our equine team members off work with stress for the last 15 months. Tiffin became anxious and […]

Yesterday The Leadership Whisperers found ourselves creating history in a completely unexpected way.Coventry University hosted an innovation and enterprise event and Emma’s horses Hermi and Rchi were the stars of the day. Whilst Hermi and Rchi regularly work with us to provide Live Events, they helped take innovation to a whole new level for both […]

The newest member to join our team is a horse called Gaudi (the grey on the left). He is the full brother to Emma’s competition horse Rchi who is also part of our Leadership with Horses team.Gaudi is the grey depicted here meeting Kalle, one of our two powerful mares. Gaudi was a little in […]

Mr Blue had his first day’s work with clients this week.As winter has arrived and he’s been rolling in the mud, he’s looking more brown than blue but that doesn’t detract from his ability to have an impact on clients.As a young six year old new to the work, Mr Blue showed that he brings […]

Business leaders can learn much from horses about teamwork and leadership. In our Leadership with Horses workshops, we take clients out of the office to work with horses. We share a leadership model that the horses use to create cohesive teamwork.It involves three positions of leadership and we will explore Leading from behind in more detail in […]

A new member of our equine team joined the Warwickshire training team this week. Mr Blue (full name is Prussian Blue) is a beautiful 6 year old grey 16.1 hands Trakehner gelding with wisdom beyond his years.He is soft and gentle, loves people and likes to playfully nudge until you make it clear where the boundaries […]

We can learn much from horses about teamwork and leadership in business. In our workshops with horses, we share a leadership model that the horses use to create cohesive teamwork. It involves three positions of leadership and we will explore Leading from the front in more detail in this post.

Did you know? That Emma is a competitive classical rider and she regularly competes with Rchi? This is Emma and Rchi riding on the right with Rchi’s brother.This weekend, Emma and Rchi competed in the Iberian Performance Show. Rchi won every class he entered – Best Ridden Gelding, Best Low School Horse (for horses who […]